It aims at addressing the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term.
The main objective is to give memory institutions full control of the process of the conformity tests of files to be
ingested into archives and to develop modular and flexible software tools to this end.

Role: Participant in the unit of the Department.

SIAR Veneto (2005 - Present)

Sistema Informativo Archivistico Regionale del Veneto.

Sistema Informativo Archivistico Regionale, Regional Archival Information System (SIAR) Project. It is a project aimed to develop a distributed Digital
Library System (DLS) for describing, managing, accessing and sharing archival resources.
SIAR is a joint project with the Italian Veneto Region and the "Sopraintendenza Archivistica per il Veneto" (Archival Regional Board of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage).

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

Past International Projects

It aims at delivering innovative adaptive services and an interactive user environment which dynamically tailors
the investigation, comprehension and enrichment of digital humanities artefacts and collections.
Through the provision of such functionality, CULTURA can empower all users to investigate, comprehend
and contribute to digital cultural collections.

Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation

It aims at providing a virtual laboratory for conducting participative
research and experimentation to carry out, advance and bring automation
into the evaluation and benchmarking of complex multilingual and multimedia information systems,
by facilitating management and offering access, curation, preservation, re-use, analysis,
visualization, and mining of the collected experimental data.

DELOS (2004 - 2007)

Contract n. G038-507618

It is the European network of excellence on digital libraries. It developed the DELOS
reference model for digital libraries, which provided the foundations for defining what
a digital library is, and delivered the DelosDLMS, the next generation digital library
management systems complying with the reference model.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

MIRA (1996 - 1999)

EEC ESPRIT Working Group No. 20039

European Working Group on the evaluation of interactive multimedia information retrieval systems. Thirteen universities and research institutions of different European nations participated in the activities of Mira. The second biannual meeting of 1996 was organized by the University of Padua at Villa Duodo, Monselice near by Padua.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

EUROIEMASTER (1995 - 1997)

IE No. 2012 EUROIEMASTER

The project led to the definition of a syllabus for an innovative Master of Science in Information Engineering. Together with the University of Padua participated to the project Sheila Pantry Associates of Sheffield (UK) (coordinator), the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Spain), the School of Computer Applications at Dublin City University (Ireland), and Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield (UK).

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

IRIDES (1995)

An electronic publishing project

IRIDES has been a joint project of the University of Padua together with Glasgow University and GMD Darmstadt. The project allowed us to design and develop a prototype for the electronic publishing, storage, dissemination and retrieval through the Web of The Computer Journal, published by Oxford University Press.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

JUKEBOX (1993 - 1994)

EEC Project JUKEBOX (LIB-JUKEBOX/4-1049)

The University of Padua contributed to the project defining the functional specifications of an online catalog for the retrieval of textual and musical data.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

IDOMENEUS (1992 - 1995)

ESPRIT Network of Excellence, No. 6606

The University of Padua contributed to the idea and the design of the proposal for IDOMENEUS, the network of
excellence in information retrieval, databases and multimedia of the EEC, that was financed by the EEC and operated from 1992 to 1995.

Role: Domain leader for the Information Retrieval and Multimedia area of the ESPRIT Network of Excellence and Leader of the unit of the Department.

Past National Projects

It is a project aimed at implementing the surveillance of diseases of pets of the Veneto Region.
The project designs and develops a Web-based application for managing and accessing the diagnoses of
transmittable and non-transmittable diseases of dogs and cats made by veterinarians in their practices,
in hospitals, in kennels and catteries.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

Noveservizi (2012 - 2013)

It is a project aimed at carrying out a feasibility study for a search engine in the medical domain.

The IPSA PRIN project has been the natural continuation of a University of Padua project that has seen the design and development of IPSA (Imaginum Patavinae Scientiae Archivum), a prototype of a digital archive management system containing metadata and images related to astronomical, astrological and botanical manuscripts of the Italian and European Middle Ages and Renaissance. IPSA is a web application designed and realised by the University of Padua. Its main application is to allow and facilitate the study of the scientific tradition during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Role: Participant of the University of Padua unit.

ECD (2002 - 2005)

Law n. 47/97-99

Enhanced Content Delivery

It is a national CNR project to develop methods and components to deliver enhanced
content to the end-users of both digital libraries and the Web.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

IBM VoIP (2002 - 2003)

Soluzione Tecnica per trasmissione dati e voce su protocollo IP

It is a project of the IBM Italy Foundation concerning the study, comparison, and quality of service
evaluation of Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions of different vendors.

InterData (1998 - 2000)

Target of the project is the development of methods and tools for the management of data and processes on Internet and Intranet networks.

Role: Leader of the unit of the Department.

ADMV (1997 - 1999)

Feasibility study for a digital library for the Venetian music of the eighteenth century

Archivio Digitale della Musica Veneta (ADMV): Feasibility study for the implementation of a digital archive of documents on music produced in the Veneto region and of the eighteen century. The feasibility study was for a project to be developed by "Discoteca di Stato" (Rome), "Marciana" National Library (Venice), and University National Library of Turin.